The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1887-06-08
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A vain spirit is much fostered and in
creased by the excessive novel reading OF
the age. am not to enter upon cru
SADIE against the perusal of works of fic-
ton. should be sorry todebar the ckild
| from Robinson Crusoe or the Pilgrim g
Progress, or to prevent any one frcm be-
coming acquainted with the character of
! Jeanne Deans or of Uncle Tom. But do
protest against that constant and indis-
criminate perusal Of romances in which so
many indulge. In the use OF such slim
ulants am an advocate, not of total alb
stinence, but of temperance principles. /
am not afraid Of an occasional stimulaut,
provided people be not constantly drink
ing of it, and provided they be taking
solid food in far larger measure. For
every novel devoured let there be eaten
and digested several books of history or
Of biography, several books of voyages
and travels, several good books of theolo-
gy, with at least book or two of science
or of philosophy. If you examine some
of our circulating libraries you will find
very different proportion-far more works
of fiction than of truth. Those who con-
sumo the garbage will soon take its hue
as the worm takes the color Of the green
heritage on which it feeds; and the fur
nishing of their mind becomes excessive
ly like the circulating libraries to which l
have referred-a strange medley, in which
the vain and fictitious occupies a far
larger place than the real and the solid.--
DR.. McOosA.
In 1885, Chicago received nearly two
million cattle, million sheep and five
million hogs, more than twenty-five
thousand animals por day. So there
marches into Chicago every day in the
year, a procession of victims two and
half miles long-ten animals abreast. For
every minnie of time-day aud night,
thirteen hogs are slaughtered in Chicago.
1t was no uncommon thing thirty-five
years ago, for pedestrians to be thrust in
to the road by the dirty snout of some
city hog; newly imported Irishman de-
clared, on being so pushed into the gutter,
that it was "a sthrange country where
the pigs were all loose and the stones all
tied. "-Carnegie
We live in new and exceptional age.
America is another name for opportunity.
Our whole history appears like last eff
fort of the Divine Providence 10 behalf of
the human race .-Emerson.
Now is the nick of time. In matters |
which reach into eternity, now is always
the nick of time. One man now Is worth |
a hundred fifty years hence. One dollar
now is worth a thousand then. Let us be |
up and doing before it is too lately
man Beecher.
She will probably become what we are
now, the head servant in the great house. |
hold of the world, the employer of all en-
ployed, because her service will be the
most and ablest. -G ladstone's prophecy
Of the y. s.
The Christian man who is not willing
to make the largest profits which an hon.
est regard for the laws Of trade permits,
is rare man. But the laws of trade per-
init much that the laws of God do not per-
init. Many transactions are commercial
ly honest which are not righteous.
Strong.
There is nothing great in this world but
man, and nothing great 10 man but mind.
Sir YIN. Hamilton.